Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 2 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 3 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 4 | They 've been brought up different way have n't they . |
| 5 | Bosnia is in worse condition now than had it been split up last year . |
| 6 | Well the Boat Race has been livened up this year with the publication of True Blue . |
| 7 | This motion has been put up this year because there are changing circumstances which really do require us to give elections to the C E C deeper consideration . |
| 8 | Last December , Congress charged that money set aside for cleaning up several of the 400 ‘ top-priority ’ dumps had been held up last autumn so as not to benefit local Democratic officeholders , who were fighting off Republican challengers in the November elections . |